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A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

I don't know if I would describe myself as a political artist.

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I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

I really don't have a clear trajectory at all.

Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.

Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.

I'm not an Abstraction Expressionist, but I think dedication to paintings comes from an early interest in that work.

If something sticks with me for a long time, it goes into a painting.

In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay.

There is an imagined thing called black culture. But culture is a construction. It is learned behavior, not innate. The black American experience is the American experience.

I make art to figure out what I'm thinking, not to tell people what I think.

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than...

In '89, I got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That's when I started to get into group shows. Suddenly, I sort of 'came out' as an artist.

I love Monk's song, 'Just a Gigolo.' It's probably a minor song for him, but whenever I hear a recording of him playing it, I'm mesmerized because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an...

Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system and letting that system go. That's kind of where the text paintings came from.

Artists such as Lorna Simpson, Zoe Leonard, Byron Kim and Stephen Andrews and I are around the same age, and I know them personally. The discussions I have had with them over the years have influenced the work that I...

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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